FRIDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1960
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE.
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Billboard Control Probably Most Controversial Measure on Ballot
Trucking I ndustry Said One
Of Nation s Top Employers
By HENRY J. BECHTOLD
UPI Financial Editor
New York -1UPD- When was
the last time you walked
down Main
Street and
failed to see a
' truck?
P r o b a bly
not lor quite
some time.
For the role
of the Ameri
c a n trucking
industry has
Benry Bechiold m u shroomed
in importance until, today, an
estimated 75 per cent of the
nation's total freight moves at
least part of the way from
mine, factory and farm -to
market by truck.
Chances are very good that
the food you buy, the clothes
you wear, the materials used
to build your house, the car
you drive and practically ev
erything you own has been
carried somewhere along the
line on trucks. ,
The trucking industry cur
rently is abreast of agricul
ture as the largest employer
in the nation. The more than
11 million trucks on the Toad
today employ more than sev
en million persons and pro
vide direct support in income
to some 22 to 23 million peo
' pie. ' : y
While the small, indepen
dent trucker still is the back
bone of the Industry, the
growing volume of freight
moving by highway has sired
a number of giant trucking
companies, operating huge
fleets of trucks and hauling
everything from gasoline to
ping pong balls. ,
Typical Trucking Growth
Although in direct competi
tion with the railroads and
airlines, it is the truck that
links those two carriers with
the ultimate consumer of the
products they carry, accord
ing to Gerald W. Eskow, pres
ident of Yale Express System,
Inc.
Yale Express is typical of
the growth experienced, by
trucking companies since the
end of World War II. Its
freight volume has soared
150 per cent in the past five
years alone, and its current
annual rate of growth is 30
per cent, Eskow noted.
. Founded in 1938 by Benja
min Eskow, now Yale's board
chairman, with four trucks
and five employees, the sys
tem now operates 1,230 ve
hicles and employs more than
1,600 people.
Eskow told United Press
International that Yale has
grown to. the point where it
currently handles more indi
vidual shipments than any
other common carrier and
has more department store
shipments ion a regular basis
than probably any other mo
tor carrier in the nation.
He said the major factor
behind Yale's success is its
"service" rendered to custom
ers. Pioneer in Automation -
Yale has been a pioneer in
introducing electronics and
automation to trucking opera
tions to achieve greater effi
ciency and economy of opera
tions. At its truck terminals
in the East Yale utilizes IBM
machines for routing and bill
ing, and closed circuit TV and
two-way radio communica
tions for faster loading, and
unloading.
Eskow pointed out that
Yale's ultra-modern control
center has been studied by ex
perts from around the world,
the federal government, arm
ed forces personnel and rep
resentatives of industries with
material-handling problems.
License Fast
In explaining the operation
of a fleet of trucks, Eskow
noted that Yale lays out an
average of $140 a year in li
cense fees for each of its road
trailers and pours more than
$200,000 a year into federal.
state, and local coffers for
taxes and fees on fuel, regis
tration fees and licenses.
In a single year, Yale's
fleet consumes .more than
700,000 gallons of diesel fuel,
1,075,000 gallons of gasoline
and, wears out 1,100 tires.
Yale road units cover approx
imately 23,372 miles every 24
hours, with the average trip
145 miles.
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Pittsburgh Bill Mazeroski, Pittsburgh Pirate infielder
who hit the game-winning home run to down the New York
Yankees for the world championship, on the tumultuous wel
come he received when he reached Home plate: - -
"Whan I finally wai able to- gat into the clubhouse, I felt
Ilka I had gone 15 round with Floyd Patterson, I wai really
pOOped. I . s ;.?.:;! )..:, : "I--' -
Washington An aide to President Eisenhower, describing
the Chief Executive's health on his 70th birthday today:
"He's in great ihapa. Ha'i feeling fine."
New York Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, summing
up his 25-day visit to the United Nations: -:.
"We gave hell to the Americana and the British."
Wall Street
Chatter
New York (UPD Alf red L.
Vanden Broeck & Co. is con
fident that although 1961 may
be a year of recession, the
November election winners
will dedicate themselves eith-
to making this recession
or perhaps even
its full develop-
Battle Lines
Clearly Drawn
In Controversy
' Editor's note: There are 15 state
measures on the Nov. 8 Oregon
general election ballot. This Is the
last of five articles describing their
background and effect.
Back Stairs: A Familiar Operation
very short
preventing
ment.
The firm says the current
or expected recession should
differ greatly from, those of
1954 or 1958 when the turn
about was accomplished on a
government level via automa
tic stabilizers and an easy
money policy. j
Both the stabilizers and
easy money, it says, are now
in effect, but we should ex
pect to see something of that
"massive machinery of gov-
ernmental intervention"
which was last urged but not
granted in the 1958 recession.
Martin Gilbert of Van AI-
styne, Noel & Co., believes
the market's current pattern
indicates further recovery po
tential. Any rallies, however,
do not alter the fact that the
more recent lows will be test
ed, he says.
;. L. O. Hooper of W. E. Hut
ton & Co. reports that Arrnco
Steel is expected to have a
better . third quarter report
than most of the big compan
ies. Some quarters expect
General Motors to declare an
extra before year end and
sources close to Brunswick
Co. are estimating 1960 earn
ings at around $5 a share or
a little better. ,
HARVARD MAN DIES
Cambridge, Mass.-Dr. Gus-
tavus Howard Maynadier, 93,
retired Harvard university
faculty member who special
ized in the English novel and
conducted a popular advanc-1
ed writing course, died Wednesday.
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By DOUGLAS GRIPP
Salem - (UPI) - The most
controversial measure before
Oregon voters next month is
probably billboard control,
No. 15.
The battle lines are clearly
drawn.
Pushing the measure hard
est is the group which put it
on the ballot by initiative pe
tition - the Oregon Highway
Protection Committee headed
by Rudie Wilhelm Jr., Port
land trucking executive.
' They have the support of
Gov. Mark Hatfield, who
signed the petition,, and even
Ginger Rogers, who says Ore
gon's lush scenery is being
blotted out by billboards.
The Hollywood actress has a
ranch in southern Oregon.
Fighting the measure is the
Oregon Council on Highway
Regulation, whose chairman
is Ralph T. Holsapple Jr.,
Portland hotelman. Those
against the initiative include
tourist industry groups and,
of course, the billboard interests.
Affects 99 and 30
The measure would, in five
years, remove Class D out
door, advertising signs from
within '660 feet of U. S. High
ways 99 and 30, except in
cities. Class D are those which
have no relation to services
within five miles. Most other
signs would be exempt.
A billboard control meas
ure failed in the 1959 legis
lature.
Officials of the State Vet
erans' Affairs Department say
that if voters turn down
measure No. 13-the veterans
bonding and loan amendment
GI s will have to wait un
til 1962 for new Oregon vet
home loans.
If it passes, another $135
million will be available, and
processing can proceed.
Supporters, including vet
erans groups, say there
still a need for the state pro
gram and that it pays for it
self. I' " - ' ' -
Credit Group Oppoiei
Leading the opposition is
the Protect Oregon's Credit
Committee. Chairman is Guy
Jacques, Portland. This group
includes private loan firms
which are against government
entry into the home lending
field. 1 .
Talks of a surplus in the
state treasury provided a
probable kiss of death for
measure No. 14, the personal
income tax bill. Even legisla
tors who initially supported
it concede that it hasn't much
of a chance for passage.
The measure would raise
taxes in the middle and up
per income brackets. It was
approved because of expecta
tions last year that the state
would have a deficit. '
State tax officials estimate
Oregon will have about $33
million left over this bienni
um, without the additional
$12 million the measure
would raise.
An irate citizens' group
from Albany put -the bill on
the ballot by initiative peti
tion.
Washington (UPD -Back
Stairs at the White House:
Some 350 Veterans Adminis
tration hospital and office
managers here from all 50
states were routed grumbling
out of bed at dawn the other
day for a scheduled audience
with President . Eisenhower.
The early reveille was part
of a hurry-up-and-wait oper
ation familiar to all veterans
and calculated to get every
body up bathed, shaved, dress
ed, breakfasted, assebled, in-and-out
of buses, assembled
again, and into the White
House rose garden by 8:25
a.m.
So. when they all were as
sembled for the third and fi
nal time outsidt the Presi
dent's office, Ike popped out
with a bright smile and apol
ogized for what he said he
was afraid some of his visitors
considered an unseemly hour.
Everybody tried, and with
remarkable success, to make
the laugh sound gay rather
than hollow. "
Ike went on to explain that
he was an old soldier and
as if this was the whole point
of the meeting-that of course
this made him a veteran.
Some of you people, some
day are going to have to take
care of me, he admonished
the group with a grin. ,
Well, that will be the day,
The happy fact Is that Eisen
hower won't have to worry,
when he leaves the White
House, even if he hasn't man
aged to save a dime from his
$150,000 annual salary and
expense account as President
of the United States.
A newspaper man who
studied his financial situation
three years ago, concluded
that Ike then was a million
aire. The President was asked
about this at a press confer
ence. He scoffed that, anybody
who offered him a million to
sell out his holdings would
make a deal in a hurry.
Maybe that was so, but ac
tually the President doesn't
really know how much he's
worth.
By his own account during
the 1952 election campaign,
he paid $217,082 in federal
taxes on $888,303 income in
the 10 preceding years. That
should- have left a nice little
nest egg to take with him into
the While House.
His take during that pre
White House period, included
$635,000 from the sale of
rights to his book "Crusade in
Europe," on which, as an am
ateur author, he was allowed
to pay $158,750 tax as a cap
ital gain rather than two or
three times as much had the
sum been charged up as or
dinary income.
Eisenhower as President,
put all his assets into an ir
revocable trust to be man
aged by a group of his friends,
so that he doesn't known now
what has been done with his
money. In general though,
they have done all right with
their own money, and pre
sumably they have not done
so bad with his either.
His known assets Include a
400-cattle farm at Gettysburg,
Pa., complete with a 14-room,
8 bathroom air-conditioned
farm house. So you can be
sure Ike never will have to
seek space in an old soldiers'
home.
And, even in the unlikely
event that all his investments
turn sour and his farm fails
to pay, he still won't lack for
three meals a day. And, he
can even count on a little
to spare on such other neces
sities as club membership and
a continuing supply of golf
balls - - .. .:
That is because Congress,
in 1958, decided that our ex
Presidents never should
have to go out and hunt for
a job. It voted to pay them
$25,000 a year for as long as
they live. Their widows then
get $10,000 yearly.
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